I broke my package manager
by ychaouche from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5NYR7)
I need repentence
I needed to install a newer version of libfreetype6, it broke my system. apt-get install -f suggests I remove all below packages, which seem critical
Code:ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 17:06:23 ~ $ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcairo-script-interpreter2 libxcb-shm0-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386
gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 ia32-libs ibus-gtk:i386
libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386
libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386
libgail-common:i386 libgail18:i386 libgd3:i386 libgphoto2-6:i386
libgtk2.0-0:i386 libharfbuzz0b:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386
libqt4-declarative:i386 libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386
libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386
libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 librsvg2-2:i386 librsvg2-common:i386
libsane:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libxft2:i386 wine wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64
wine1.6-i386:i386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 40 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 347 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 17:08:48 ~ $Is there a way around this to restore the computer to where it was ?
I needed to install a newer version of libfreetype6, it broke my system. apt-get install -f suggests I remove all below packages, which seem critical
Code:ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 17:06:23 ~ $ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcairo-script-interpreter2 libxcb-shm0-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386
gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 ia32-libs ibus-gtk:i386
libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386
libcanberra-gtk0:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386
libgail-common:i386 libgail18:i386 libgd3:i386 libgphoto2-6:i386
libgtk2.0-0:i386 libharfbuzz0b:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386
libqt4-declarative:i386 libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386
libqt4-qt3support:i386 libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386
libqtgui4:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 librsvg2-2:i386 librsvg2-common:i386
libsane:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libxft2:i386 wine wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64
wine1.6-i386:i386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 40 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 347 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
ychaouche#ychaouche-PC 17:08:48 ~ $Is there a way around this to restore the computer to where it was ?